Hear about $100,000 in seed grants on September 24th!

The Future of Information Alliance (FIA) announces its second annual campus-wide seed grant competition. Join us for an information meeting on Sept. 24, 2-4 pm in the Stamp Student Union Colony Ballroom. The FIA Seed Grant Competition offers an opportunity for faculty to work with motivated students, engage in transdisciplinary research, and connect with the 10 FIA Founding Partners.

 

Four teams of students and their faculty mentors will win up to $25,000 in grants. "It will...help our students take part in the search for creative solutions to some of the most pressing issues of our time," says University of Maryland President Wallace Loh. The FIA Seed Grant Competition is made possible with support from the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation.

 

In a brief video you can see what previous seed grant winners accomplished.

 

For full details, and to register for the informational meeting on Sept. 24, please visit http://fia.umd.edu. Representatives of FIA Founding Partners will take part. The partners include the Smithsonian Institution, the National Geographic Society, the Library of Congress, the US National Park Service, the Newseum, the National Archives, Sesame Workshop, WAMU 88.5, the Barrie School, and the Office of the Governor of Maryland.

 

In addition, the FIA will be announcing a series of "Visiting Future-ist" events for the Fall 2013 semester. Save the dates now for Dec. 2-6, 2013: The Future of the Past. These five exciting events will be hosted throughout the first week of Dec. at Fort McHenry National Park, the U.S. Library of Congress, the National Geographic Society, the Newseum, and the University of Maryland.